uncomfortable with mormons but very politically uncomfortable with barack obama. when they did the calculus in the end, in a sense, that sort of made it a nonissue. >> i agree with that entirely. i do think that the fact that we didn't see, save the kind of bigotry that you saw visibly when john f. kennedy ran. whether it is indifference or tolerance, it is better than hostility. >>> the supreme court is going to hear two cases of, involving gay marriage and gay marriage was a big issue in several states. what do you see going on there? >> it seem to me there's a broad based cultural shift. i'm not saying people are all in support of gay marriage or that the issue is going to go away. but you saw this year for example, gallup poll that said the majority of americans saw a gay marriage as morally acceptable. you saw a sitting president for the first time come out and endorse same sex marriage. you saw voters in three states not only allow same sex marriage but in a fourth state, reject an attempt to ban it which is equally as important, i think. so this issue is no